The original post was a bit tongue-in-cheek, as the article did make clear that few libraries were paying much attention to the most recent (or to previous) press releases.

This is another case where Congress wrote another knee-jerk law, requiring a Federal agency to produce another set of redundant regulations to enforce it, where the "unintended consequences" make somebody look stupid.

The hazards of lead, especially for youngsters, have been pretty well documented, so we have to control the lead in children's books - but we can ignore the lead in coal-fired power/industrial emissions 'cause they're profitable. (Nobody ever accused a library of making a profit - that I've heard of.)

John